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Welcome to the first topic of Tech Talk with a point (haha).
So basically, post your computer specs. I'll just do a little here.
iMac G5 Second Generation
20"
2.0 GHz
512 mb RAM (will upgrade one day....)
OS X 10.4.7
250 GB HDD
Apple Wireless Mouse+Keyboard
Terribly Buggy HP Printer
No iSight :(
Ok I'm done post yours.
this one is just a stock DELL thing
512 ram, 2.8 ghz, 128 generic video card, bah
its running UBUNTU because I'm too lazy to look for a stupid onboard ethernet driver for this thing
my other is like 1g ram, 3.2ghz processor, 128 generic video card with windows XP
intel celeron 533 mhz
256 ram
sapphire 128 vid dual out
seagate 120gig hd
Cruddy PC right now...
2.98 GHz Intel
256 MB RAM
80 GB HD
Integrated Intel Graphics (which BITES because it doesn't include a slot to upgrade it)
Add to that a horribly inefficient cooling system and a measly 250 W power supply and you've got a real junker.
Eventually I'll get off my arse and build myself a new computer.
AMD Athlon 64bit 3.4 GHz Processor (SSE3 3DNOW! All that good junk)
1600Mhz Bus Speed
Gigabyte K8M800 Motherboard with AC 97 Onboard Sound (Up to 7.1 Dolby Digital)
-3 PCI Slots
-1 AGP 8x
-Hyperthreading Support
-2 DIMM Slots with support for up to 4 Gb of 533mhz DDR SDRAM
-Onboard VIA RHINE 2 Ethernet Controller 10/100Mbit Ehternet
-2 SATA Raid Controllers
-2 IDE controllers
-1 Floppy Controller (Woo hOo! Old School)
-6 USB 2.0 Ports
-Dual BIOS System With Integrated System Backup Program and BIOS Flashing Utility
RADEON 9800 Pro (Second Series) 256bit
-256 Megs of DDR2 SDRAM
-DVI, CRT, SVIDEO outs
-Shader Model 3 Support
-All kinds of other goodies. http://www.ati.com/products/radeon9800/rad...ro/compare.html
Memorex DVD RW+-
Atapi 52x CD RW
60Gb Hard Disk
256MB ULTRA DDR SDRAM (I have more on the way the original stick sent to me via New Egg was bad, system will have 1 GiG when it comes in)
OS - Gentoo Linux, Kernel 2.6.17-r7
I also have a Dell Latitude D620 With 512MB DDR2 and a Centrino Dual Core 64bit processor and an Nvideo Quatro NVS 110M PCI Express Card Thanks to my School
OS: Windows XP (Home Edition).
The only operating system that allows you to run your sound card without typing in afget -a -l /home/etc/usd.config! Hooray for that!
Sony VAIO VGC
Intel 5 Series P4
RAM: 1024 MB
250 GB
nVidia GeForce FX 5700 Graphics Card
Dual-Layer DVD+/-RW
20" LCD Widescreen
O.S. XP/home
It came with some third-party freeware PSP conversion software so I can transfer my photos, video, and music to my PSP. I like the transistion and intergration between the image convertor and the PSP. its Soooooo Smoooooth!! basically to the point where the system becomes a media server for my PSP My wife has a Vaio Laptop so when it comes to media streaming between the two... Forget about it. Soooo Sweeettt. I Love it.
I made this post a while back. If you wanna see my specs then read it here. Meh I'll copy paste it:
My main box:
Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition w/ Service Pack 2
AS-ROCK 939 Dual SATA2
AMD Athlon 64 3700+ San Diego
1 GB DDR400 PC3200 RAM
80GB Maxtor Diamond Max HDD SATA 300 Gbits/sec [It's a piece of crap... it's trying to fail I think]
Sapphire Radeon X850XT 256MB 256 bit PCI Express [aftermarket ATI silencer cooling]
Realtek AC'97 Onboard 7.1 Audio
NEC All-format DVD writer[including dual layer]/CD writer
intel 3.40 Ghz cpu
2 gb RAM
300 GB HDD
HP wireless keyboard/mouse
Dual-Layer DVD+/-RW
Windows XP Media Centre (Vista ready)
Graphics 512MB GF7500LE
You fail for having a mac.Quote:
Originally Posted by megabenman
Oh and don't hold grudges against the first topic here.. WITHOUT a point. >:]
Anyways...
AMD Athlon 64 3500+
2.2 GHz
1024 MB DDR RAM (will be 2GB soon)
Windows XP Home
1x 150GB Internal Hard Drives, 1x 200GB External, 1x 500 GB external; making a total of 850GB hard disk space
Logitech G15 Keyboard
Logitech Mediamouse
HP Photosmart 7450 Photoprinter.
2x USB2.0 Hub, 8 ports ea.
GeForce 7800GTX (proud of that)
Neon Lights :P
Dolby 5.1 Surround system.
17" HP Pavilion (f1703).
Did you build that or buy it pre-built? If you built it or added the GPU later how much did that 7800GTX set you back? I paid just under 200 for my x850xt and now like 5 months later it's down to $124. Oh well that's the way the PC world goes eh. Also I too am thinking about adding another gig of ram to my box. Most ram I've ever actually managed to use was like 1030MB which is 6 more MB than I've got. That was while playing F.E.A.R multiplayer with max setting @ 1024x768, 4x antialiasing 8x anisotropic filtering. Around 40FPS except when I'd turn a corner and it'd have to go to the page file for a texture it'd drop to like 8FPS for a couple seconds which sucked. My RAM is fast but my hard drive isn't.Quote:
Originally Posted by TweaK
I built in some additional stuff, replaced the Graphics card (the original one was a GeForce 6200SE. That card is worse than the 3800), bought external hard disks, the printer, the hubs, etc.Quote:
Originally Posted by Leixor
What was already in?
The processor, the RAM, the OS (I insta formatted it as soon as I had it in my place though. It had Norton and other system resource hogging apps preinstalled), 2x 150 GB (though one got permanent hardware failures and I had to remove it), and the Neon Lights.
The 7800GTX cost me about €500,-.. Which comes down to a $635ish. By now, it's only like €200. >__>
Still, I don't really care. It plays the latest games on the highest graphical intense settings without framerate loss.
Indeed, that is how the PC world goes around. I don't mind, it's for all the better. Now, 1Gig of RAM in one chip is only €35 here. 1-2 years ago when I wanted another Gig of RAM (DDR) in one chip (so 1x 1024 rather than 2x 512) it was going to cost me over €300. I decided not to get that additional gig, and I didn't. One of these days, I'm going to get it for only 10% of the price it was back then.
Fixed. :wink:Quote:
Originally Posted by TweaK
MacBook Pro
15.4" Screen w/ 22" Monitor
2.16 Ghz
2 MB Ram
OS 10.4.7/10.5
100GB HDD
Apple Wireless Mouse & Keyboard
Built-in iSight
So tell me, what's so great about Mac that tops off Windows?Quote:
Originally Posted by cmr924
The massive amount of virusses that are on Windows and not on Mac? That's what antivirus applications are for.
The massive amount of games and applications that do not support Mac? Oh wait, that's a big plus for windows there!
Please convince me.
I like Tech Talk :goodjob:
I dislike spam. :(
These days, I can run both Windows and Mac OS X simultaneously, or if I want to I can even boot directly into Windows. If I want to play games, I can.Quote:
Originally Posted by TweaK
Overall, I rarely use the Windows operating system. I have come to love UNIX for its ease of use, its security, and its stability.
I definitely wasn't a big Macintosh fan back in the days of pre-Mac OS X, but things have changed.
Antivirus applications are great. So is constantly downloading Microsoft security patches. In fact, it is so great that I hate not even worrying about viruses altogether.
Often times, these Mac vs. Windows arguments can get heated but I hope that we can remain as civil as we have been thus far. :bigteeth:
Thanks,
Chris
Mmm... there AREN'T alot of viruses for windows. And plus, as long as you're not Warezing and crap, you're not likely to get anything.Quote:
The massive amount of virusses that are on Windows and not on Mac? That's what antivirus applications are for.[/b]
You're kidding, right?Quote:
Originally Posted by Artie
Hp notebook dv6000z
Windows XP Home ed
AMD Turion 64 X2 mobile
1.61ghz
1 gig ram
false 80 gig HD (more like 70)
15.4" screen
Nvidia 7600
Please be joking. Please be joking, you meat popsicle.Quote:
UNIX for its ease of use[/b]
But they have the most hilarious Shell Commands. Soooo Funny! :chuckle:
> Title: UNIX
> csh/sh commands:
> ===========================
> % cat "food in cans"
> cat: can't open food in cans
>
> % nice man woman
> No manual entry for woman.
>
> % rm God
> rm: God nonexistent
>
> % ar t God
> ar: God does not exist
>
> % ar r God
> ar: creating God
>
> % "How would you rate Quayle's incompetence?
> Unmatched ".
>
> % [Where is Jimmy Hoffa?
> Missing ].
>
> % ^How did the sex change operation go?
> ^ Modifier failed.
>
> % If I had a ( for every $ the Congress spent, what
> would I have?
> Too many ('s.
>
> % make love
> Make: Don't know how to make love. Stop.
>
> % sleep with me
> bad character
>
> % got a light?
> No match.
>
> % man: why did you get a divorce?
> man:: Too many arguments.
>
> % !:say, what is saccharine?
> Bad substitute.
>
> % %blow
> %blow: No such job.
lmao awesome!Quote:
Originally Posted by Ne
I agree that not having viruses is a pretty silly reason to stay away from Windows. It's really quite easy to protect yourself. That being said there are a few cases in which I could see a Mac having a greater benefit ratio than Windows. Some people like Macs for the ease of use and the powerful video/photo/what have you editing features. I guess I can see that. I can do all of that on Windows too though. I also agree that OS X is pretty slick. Still though, I'm a Windows guy. And yeah you can run Windows on Macs nowadays since Apple shifted to the Intel based processors. Seems kind of silly to me, but I suppose it has its place.
Yeah, they say that Mac's do better with video/photo editing and stuff but in reality video editing on the mac is crap compared to PC.
I tried FCP... its a joke, seems like the program was designed for little kids.
Photoshop is alot slower on the Mac too, I hear.
I keep hearing that Apple is a hardware company, not so much an operating system/software/any other kind of company company. Like with the iPods.
There's a lot of stirring around about how the music shop isn't actually working out as successfully as it might (9 out of 10 iPod users have never downloaded music from iTunes, or some scary figure like that) and it makes some sense because Apple doesn't really care or gain a whole lot from whether or not the artists get money. They want to sell you their iPods, that's where the market ends for them. You can put music on it if you like, but what does that matter to Apple? When the battery goes or whatever, heck, come buy another iPod!
Same goes for Boot Camp. A lot of people working in Redmond - that's the Microsoft Campus of Evil for all you good fellows out there - now, with Boot Camp, actually run Windows on a Powerbook or whatever Apple hardware they like. Now you could just say "ha ha they like Apple's stuff more", but, well, why? Because Apple make very good looking and not half bad hardware. 99% of them probably don't give a crap about Mac OS X and the wonderful "flashback" feature coming out soon* (and I know I don't), or, say, the amazingly "intitutive" object dock. Whatever. The hardware is cool.
Just a thought. I'm not saying it's necessarially the whole truth and nothing but. Was that too deep for Tech Talk? Perhaps move to Philosphy?
If you like reading this sort of stuff, Nicholas Carr has a fun old blog on Web 2.0, Wikipedia, Apple, Software and a Service and all that other crap that's always 'perpetually in beta'. Good times.
* Have you seen how Apple pimps out "flashback", the apparently new ability to restore files from any time you like? I mean it's great how the crowd goes wild despite the fact we've had Volume Shadow Copy on Windows since what might as well be the dawn of time. That Steve Jobs really knows how to work a crowd.
No, I am not joking. I would easily use Mac OS X or Linux before I would think of going back to Windows. Are you trying to tell me that Windows actually runs better? I knew your kind existed, I just thought that none of them were literate. Just kidding. :content:Quote:
Originally Posted by Kaniaz
I will pretend you haven't noticed how much Windows Vista steals from Mac OS X.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kaniaz